Word: scrapingly
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...easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible and dishonest, to his face...
...their distribution. Pecuniary aid is intended for "meritorious students in needy circumstances"; let the man who keeps expensive apartments or spends money freely on clubs, sports, etc., ask himself conscientiously if he deserves such aid, when some of his classmates whose records entitle them to it, have to scrape along on a sum perhaps half as large as that he spends...
...most amusing to all who are within its precincts and get a glimpse of the true state of affairs, and it is only on account of the antiquity of the accusations that laughter is restrained. Age has given the charge a veneer of truth which modern investigation will scrape off in a few seconds showing the rottenness of the under structure...
...senior officer at West Point has been dismissed for complicity in a hazing scrape...
...gained fully six inches, which it continued to increase till the end of four minutes when they had raised it to a foot. During the next minute, however, '84 gradually reduced this lead and at the end of four and a half minutes it appeared as though she might scrape...